Click Here to Read: What we learned about Mercury from the Messenger spacecraft By Bryan Dyne on the World Socialist Web Site on June 22, 2015.
Artist depiction of Messenger in orbit around Mercury. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/CIW
Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice at CFS
The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of The Contemporary Freudian Society
Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice
We are pleased to offer an eight-week course on Analytic Listening and Concepts beginning Fall 2015. This course qualifies for 12 Continuing Education credits.
This course is suitable for students from a wide variety of backgrounds, including practicing clinicians from all disciplines, recent graduates of Masters-level or Doctoral-level programs, professionals considering changing careers, and anyone interested in exploring the possibility of post-graduate psychoanalytic training. Continue reading Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice at CFS
“Changing Sex, Changing Psychoanalysis” with Patricia Gherovici at CFS
THE PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING INSTITUTE OF THE CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN SOCIETY
“Changing Sex, Changing Psychoanalysis” Presenter: Patricia Gherovici, PhD
Friday, September 18, 2015, 8:00 – 10:00pm
I take as my point of departure the dawn of psychoanalysis: hysteric patients presented somatic problems for which traditional medicine could give no answer; this led Freud to invent a new mode of treatment. For Freud it meant postulating the existence of the unconscious. The hysterics’ symptoms all revealed a sexual origin. At the same period, leading sexologists and pioneer activists like Magnus Hirshfeld worked closely to Freud, which seemed to promise a fruitful collaboration between the fields. Unhappily prejudice prevented this collaboration, and sexology and psychoanalysis took divergent, even opposed paths. Despite these tensions, transsexualism has remained Continue reading “Changing Sex, Changing Psychoanalysis” with Patricia Gherovici at CFS
Steven Pinker’s Mind Games
Kingsley Hall: RD Laing’s experiment in anti-psychiatry
Click Here to Read: Kingsley Hall: RD Laing’s experiment in anti-psychiatry: In 1965, the psychiatrist opened a residential treatment centre that aimed to revolutionise the treatment of mental illness. Five decades on, those who lived and spent time there look back on an era of drama and discovery by Sean O’Hagan in The Guardian on September 1, 2012 .
Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America
The History of the IPA
Psychology Sunday: Ernst Kris
Click Here to Read: Ernst Kris on Wikipedia.
Click Here to Read: Ernst Kris: Austrian-American Art Historian and Psychoanalyst on Ernest Kris’s website.
Click Here to Read: Ernst Kris: An Annotated Bibilography.
Click Here to Read: Reprints Collected by Kris, Ernst (1900-1957) on the BPSI Website.
Click Here to Read: Ernst Kris Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress. Continue reading Psychology Sunday: Ernst Kris
The Life of the Flying Aperçu
Click Here to Read: The Life of the Flying Aperçu: Review of Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education by Morris Dickstein, Reviewed By Alan Mintz in The Jewish Review of Books, Summer 2015 Issue.
Click Here to Read: The Reformation of Morris Dickstein on this website.
Click Here to Read: Finding My Way: Junior Year, 1959 by Morris Dickstein on the Columbia Today Website. Continue reading The Life of the Flying Aperçu
